TY - JOUR
T1 - A pediatric survey for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
T2 - Emergency medical services system re-assessments
AU - Dieckmann, Ronald A.
AU - Athey, Jean
AU - Bailey, Bob
AU - Michael, Jeff
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the EMSC Program, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration/National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Emergency medical services for children, or EMSC, is still a relatively underdeveloped component of most state and local EMS systems. Advocacy and funding for EMSC from the federal EMSC Program, availability of many useful EMSC products, and the rapidly enlarging literature in EMSC have created heightened awareness and interest in improving systems for pediatric emergency, trauma, and critical care. The new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) EMS Technical Assistance (TA) re-assessment program, the second version of the successful original TA Program from 1988 to 1996, provides an ideal opportunity for state EMS professionals to evaluate EMSC capabilities and to integrate new EMSC products and services. The history of the TA Program reflects the evolution of EMS itself and indicates a historical inattention to children's issues, but re-assessment TA teams now have much useful intervening EMSC history to draw upon and a clear philosophical mandate to integrate children more fully in EMS system planning and management. In order to facilitate state-of-the-art reviews of EMSC within state EMS systems, a pediatric survey for the NHTSA re-assessments is presented. The survey, developed with the input of EMS administrators and physicians and approved by the National Association of State EMS Directors, follows the original ten-component model for EMS system review. It is intended for optional use within the overall EMS review process.
AB - Emergency medical services for children, or EMSC, is still a relatively underdeveloped component of most state and local EMS systems. Advocacy and funding for EMSC from the federal EMSC Program, availability of many useful EMSC products, and the rapidly enlarging literature in EMSC have created heightened awareness and interest in improving systems for pediatric emergency, trauma, and critical care. The new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) EMS Technical Assistance (TA) re-assessment program, the second version of the successful original TA Program from 1988 to 1996, provides an ideal opportunity for state EMS professionals to evaluate EMSC capabilities and to integrate new EMSC products and services. The history of the TA Program reflects the evolution of EMS itself and indicates a historical inattention to children's issues, but re-assessment TA teams now have much useful intervening EMSC history to draw upon and a clear philosophical mandate to integrate children more fully in EMS system planning and management. In order to facilitate state-of-the-art reviews of EMSC within state EMS systems, a pediatric survey for the NHTSA re-assessments is presented. The survey, developed with the input of EMS administrators and physicians and approved by the National Association of State EMS Directors, follows the original ten-component model for EMS system review. It is intended for optional use within the overall EMS review process.
KW - EMSC
KW - Pediatric EMS
KW - Pediatric emergency
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U2 - 10.1080/10903120190939706
DO - 10.1080/10903120190939706
M3 - Article
C2 - 11446536
AN - SCOPUS:0034957273
SN - 1090-3127
VL - 5
SP - 231
EP - 236
JO - Prehospital Emergency Care
JF - Prehospital Emergency Care
IS - 3
ER -